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Hi folks, I'm painting my house (staying with the same color), the painter is also a carpenter and I had him add some gable brackets and a piece of wood trim in the center. Should I paint/stain the gable brackets a cedar/brown color or paint it white like the rest of the trim? The wife and I have gone back and forth with this and can't decide, painter is going to paint this Saturday, so need to decide. What would you do?
Brackets- stain. Not paint! If you're going to the trouble of adding them, don't cheap-out with painting them a "stain-like" color. That's pretty much the only way I've seen them here in the ATL.
One other note- make sure you have metal drip flashing above the band- or you'll be replacing it in about 3-4yrs.
If you were painting your house a "clean and bright" color, I'd say to keep it all white.
Since you are keeping the beige exterior, and the new details and existing dormer read "Craftsman", I think you should make ALL the trim brown to match the roof, including the currently white trim around the windows and front door, and the trim along the roof.
Just go all the way to Craftsman and keep all the trim uniformly brown. It will look more purposeful and charming.
Brackets- stain. Not paint! If you're going to the trouble of adding them, don't cheap-out with painting them a "stain-like" color. That's pretty much the only way I've seen them here in the ATL.
One other note- make sure you have metal drip flashing above the band- or you'll be replacing it in about 3-4yrs.
Too late for the semi transparent stain, they started painting them white before I told them we may stain it-so I'm stuck with those solid stains that look like paint or have them finish painting them white. Yes, they installed flashing.
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Originally Posted by Shooting Stars
If you were painting your house a "clean and bright" color, I'd say to keep it all white.
Since you are keeping the beige exterior, and the new details and existing dormer read "Craftsman", I think you should make ALL the trim brown to match the roof, including the currently white trim around the windows and front door, and the trim along the roof.
Just go all the way to Craftsman and keep all the trim uniformly brown. It will look more purposeful and charming.
Yeah, I know beige is so 10yrs ago but we still like the color, the painters already started painting the white trim and brown seems like it would just disappear with the roof.
Painting them a brown or the color of the roof would really give it some architectural interest and really class it up, in my opinion. Painting them white will just make it fade into the background.
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I like how the dark brown gable looks with the roof.
